Blueslice Selects GoAhead to Reduce Time-to-Market for new HLR/SCP.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 17, 2003 GoAhead to provide commercial, off-the-shelf high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. middleware to accelerate development of new scaleable SIP HLR/SCP GoAhead(R) Software today announced the selection of its SelfReliant(R) availability management middleware by Blueslice Networks Inc. Blueslice chose SelfReliant to deliver the high availability component of their NEBS3-compliant SIP HLR/SCP(TM) for wireless operators. GoAhead provides the availability and management middleware that is critical to meet Blueslice's 99.999% availability requirement, which is less than five minutes of downtime per year. Blueslice's product unites an HLR (Home Location Register) A database in a cellular system that contains all the subscribers within the provider's home service area. When a subscriber reaches a new service area, the data in the HLR is requested and transferred via SS7 to the VLR (Visitor Location and SCP (1) (Service Control Point) A node in an SS7 telephone network that provides an interface to databases, which may reside within the SCP computer or in other computers. into one chassis running specialized SIP and MAP software optimized for wireless network operators. The NEBS3-compliant SIP HLR/SCP(TM) works on all phones on all networks. "Because time-to-market is extremely important to Blueslice, when possible, we opt to use off-the-shelf components to build our new system," said Louis Barbeau, vice president of R&D for Blueslice. "SelfReliant will save us months of development time -- time that we are using more productively to develop our own unique HLR/SCP application." Blueslice's Mobile SIP HLR/SCP leverages a hardened NEBS3-certified Compact PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). UNIX Server A medium to large-scale computer system in a network that runs under Unix. Unix servers are widely used as application servers and database servers and are available from a variety of vendors, including Sun, IBM, HP and others. and GoAhead SelfReliant to ensure no single point of failure. SelfReliant runs as the high availability (HA) middleware layer on top of the Mobile SIP server's Solaris operating system, enabling the server to perform mobile registration, routing and security enforcement without downtime. The Blueslice platform connects third-party applications on the server directly in the form of plug-ins, on a server platform running on a separate CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. , or remotely. "Many network equipment and application providers are moving away from in-house development of HA software," said Paul Zoba, vice president of marketing at GoAhead Software. "Blueslice is a good example of a company that consciously decided to purchase the HA middleware component, so they could spend their limited engineering resources on creating an innovative new SIP HLR/SCP product." More about GoAhead SelfReliant SelfReliant runs as a middleware layer on top of the operating system to manage redundant components for 99.999% availability and reliability. It features 2-3 millisecond One thousandth of a second. See space/time and ohnosecond. (unit) millisecond - (ms) One thousandth of a second, one thousand microseconds. A long time for a modern computer. failover speeds, checkpointing to preserve application data, and over 38,000 per second distributed message delivery. Real-time capture, storage and replication of system and/or application data assure continuous, uninterrupted service. Its compact footprint (less than 4.5 MB) and low CPU usage (less than 3% of CPU capacity) are ideal for the tight resource constraints typical of embedded systems. External management is conducted either through a web console or network management via SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) A widely used network monitoring and control protocol. Data are passed from SNMP agents, which are hardware and/or software processes reporting activity in each network device (hub, router, bridge, etc. . The modular design supports building solutions with off-the-shelf components and little to no integration. Its flexibility also allows phasing in high availability functionality over multiple releases. For projects that require full HA at first release, GoAhead SelfReliant Suite is pre-integrated for fast, easy deployment. GoAhead offers a range of packages to make getting started with SelfReliant easy and quick. SelfReliant is available for free 60-day trial download at www.goahead.com/products/eval_download.htm. About Blueslice Networks Inc. Blueslice Networks Inc. designs, manufactures, integrates, and markets innovative solutions for a migration to a SIP-enabled core network for mobile operators, delivering the promise of 3G networks today. The Blueslice solution combines the HLR and SCP functions for a fraction of the cost of legacy equipment and leverages the open-standard Session Initiation Protocol (protocol) Session Initiation Protocol - (SIP) A very simple text-based application-layer control protocol. It creates, modifies, and terminates sessions with one or more participants. Such sessions include Internet telephony and multimedia conferences. It is described in RFC 2543. (SIP) to speed up deployment times of new services for mobile operators. Blueslice Networks is a private company with headquarters in Montreal, Canada. About GoAhead Software GoAhead(R) Software provides the first integrated, platform-independent suite of high availability middleware for developing reliable embedded systems and applications. GoAhead products are used by developers in communications, military/aerospace and other industries with high reliability requirements. GoAhead SelfReliant(R) is offered as a fully integrated suite of software that implements high availability in complex systems. For project teams requiring specific SelfReliant functionality, GoAhead also offers three standalone modules: Basic Availability Management (BAM Bam (bäm), town (1996 pop. 70,100), Kerman prov., SE Iran, on the intermittent Bam River. Located on the western edge of the Dasht-e Lut, Bam is a trade center in a henna-growing region. Dates and other fruits are also grown; camels are raised. ), Distributed Messaging Service (DMS (1) (Document Management System) See document management. (2) (Defense Messaging System) An X.500-compliant messaging system developed by the U.S. Dept. of Defense. ), and Embedded Systems Management (ESM (1) (Enterprise Storage Management) Managing the online, nearline and offline storage within a large organization. It includes analysis of storage requirements as well as making routine copies of files and databases for backup, archiving, disaster recovery, ). Ideal for systems such as wireless base station controllers, softswitches, defense command/control systems and industrial controllers, SelfReliant helps developers reduce project risk, lower costs and achieve faster time-to-market. GoAhead is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. with headquarters in Bellevue, Washington. For more information on GoAhead, visit the company's web site at www.goahead.com or call 425-453-1900. |
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